“The museum will be totally different from the African Heritage House,” says Donovan. With the museum dedicated to the African arts and architecture, the African Heritage House will be turned into the African Heritage Studies Centre, a first for Africa. Murumbi’s dream was to turn his house in Muthaiga into the Murumbi Institute of African Studies. After his initiation as a Yoruba chief, Donovan travelled to the US, where he met with the director of the African Studies Centre at UCLA. "She had a museum of many African beads and elements, although she has never visited Africa.

Source: The Star November 22, 2019 18:56 UTC